BRUSSELS WARNS OF 'SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES' AS BOSNIAN SERBS CELEBRATE BREAKAWAY ANNIVERSARY
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10.01.2024


Euronews (9 January 2024)

Mared Gwyn Jones

 

Brussels has sounded the alarm over celebrations planned in Bosnia and Herzegovina's post-war Serb region, the Republika Srpska, to mark its breakaway anniversary.

The so-called 'Republika Srpska Day' celebrates the region's 1992 claim of independence from Bosnia during the breakup of Yugoslavia, which led to a bloody interethnic war that claimed 100,000 lives.

The commemoration, which coincides with a religious Orthodox holiday, has been deemed unconstitutional by Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court because it discriminates against non-Serbs.

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